Waste Route Optimization Software Modeling Accuracy

Methodologies to Assess Waste Collection Route Times In setting up the routing model’s productivity rates, there are two approaches: In aggregate, both approaches are accurate.  It is at the individual route level that the scale data calibration method has proven to be more accurate. For the City of Virginia Beach in 2013, scale ticket data […]

Estimating garbage truck GHG emissions is challenging since the same number of stops and road miles must be serviced, just with less trucks over less time. At ROC, we are estimating the reduction in CO2 from route optimization for waste collection as the net reduction in emissions from reducing the number of trucks utilized per […]

Switching to automated waste collection requires determining which customers cannot be collected by automated collection. The automated waste collection criteria that we evaluate each stop for are the following: 1. Dead end without a cul de sac to turn around.  2. On-street parking disallowing space for a cart. 3. Low hanging tree limbs, blocking automation […]

How to Use Waste Collection KPIs When Evaluating Garbage Truck Routes? How many use stop counts?  How many use tons?  These are the two most common metrics used for workload assessments for garbage truck routes.  Even fundamental data like route tons and stop counts can be hard to access by operations managers.  Tons and stops are […]

Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) in waste collections improves your ability to manage and route operations as they grow and evolve into new collection systems.  To develop additional insights into the municipal solid waste collections programs, waste collection route KPIs were developed by Callen, Kevin T. “Key Performance Indicators in Waste Collections Routing.” Presented at the […]

The Municipal Solid Waste Collections and Route Optimization Handbook is a blog series to go into the operational aspects of municipal solid waste collection.  The purpose of this series is to provide information from past experiences that will give managers the information to ever improve waste collection efficiency and effectiveness. Although the collections portion (versus […]

Successfully Implementing & Maintaining Routing Software Requires More Than Licensing Software There are many reasons that route planning software fails in implementation or fails to be used beyond the initial implementation. here are what we have seen over the past two decades of helping municipalities and companies not fall prey to these gotchas: